Salinas Valley Integrated Regional Water Management Prop 50 Round 1 Implementation Grant 2002-2012 State Water Resources Control Board March 4, 2014
Salinas Valley Integrated Regional Water Management
Prop 50 Round 1 Implementation Grant
2002-2012 State Water Resources Control Board
March 4, 2014
Presented by Monterey County Water Resources Agency
Prop 50 Round 1 Timeline
SVIRWMP History
• Developed FEP for Salinas Basin
• WMG
– Monterey County Water Resources Agency
– Marina Coast Water District
– Castroville Water District
SVIRWMP Goals • Four General Categories
1. Water Supply
• Improve Water Supply Reliability
• Improve Drought Reliability
2. Water Quality
• Protect and Improve Groundwater Quality
• Protect and Improve Surface Water Quality
SVIRWMP Goals (cont.)
• Four General Categories
3. Flood Protection
• Minimize Flood Potential
• Maintain Flood Channel Capacity
4. Environmental Enhancement
• Enhance Streams/Fisheries
• Enhance Wetlands
SVIWMP Regional Priorities Short Term
Projects:
– that Stop Seawater Intrusion and balance SV Groundwater Basin
– meet existing water demands
– that re-establish steelhead in the Arroyo Seco
– that Protect and Improve Groundwater Quality
SVIWMP Priorities Long Term
• Meet Future Water Demands
• Establish Steelhead upstream of Arroyo Seco
• Continue efforts to Improve Groundwater Quality
• Implement Watershed Management
Prop. 50 Implementation Grant Projects
• Marina Coast Water District Eastern Distribution System
• Soledad Water Recycling/Reclamation Project
• Monterey County Water Resources Agency Salinas Valley Water Project
Prop. 50 Implementation Grant Project Locations
SVIRWMP Prop. 50 Budget COMPONENT PROP. 50
FUNDS MATCH FUNDS TOTAL PROJECT
Grant Administration
$157,500 $0 $157,500
MCWD-Eastern Distribution System
$2,330,000 $3,642,081 $5,972,081
Soledad –Water Recycling/Reclamation Project
$4,418,750 $0 $4,418,750
MCWRA-Salinas Valley Water Project
$5,593,750 $28,300,000 $33,893,750
TOTALS $12,500,000 $31,942,081 $44,442,081
Prop. 50 Implementation Grant Project Management
• MCRWA
– Grantee
– Grant administrator
– Point of Contact for State Board
• “Sub-contracted” with MCWD and Soledad
State Board Grant Manager
Kelley List
MCWRA
MCWD
Soledad
Project Linkages & Benefits
SVIRWM
-Water Supply
-Water Quality
-Flood Protection
-Environmental Enhancement
Salinas Valley Water Project
Eastern Distribution System
Soledad Water Recycling Project
• Water Supply
• Groundwater Quality
Protection
Soledad Water Recycling/Reclamation
• 5.5 MGD Tertiary Facility at the City WWTP
• 0.5 MGD Scalping Plant (expandable to 1.3 MGD)
• 4.5 mile recycled water transmission pipeline
Soledad WWTP 2007
Layout of Proposed City Plant
Facilities to Achieve Required Treatment
Soledad WWTP 2012
Project Linkages & Benefits
SVIRWM
-Water Supply
-Water Quality
-Flood Protection
-Environmental Enhancement
Eastern Distribution System
•Water Supply Reliability
- Current and future demands
•Groundwater Management
•Water Quality Protection &
Management
Water Recycling Project
Salinas Valley Water Project
Eastern Distribution System Project
• 2 New Inland Wells – Decreases reliance on coastal wells by up to 25% to prevent further salt water intrusion
• 1 Geologic test well
• Associated structures and control systems
MCWD-EDS Well-34
MCWD–EDS Watkins Gate Well
Project Linkages & Benefits
Salinas Valley Water Project
•Stop Seawater Intrusion
•Balance Basin
•Re-establish Steelhead in Arroyo Seco
•Meet future water demands
Eastern Distribution System
Soledad Water Recycling Project
SVIRWM
Water Supply
Water Quality
Flood Protection
Environmental Enhancement
Salinas Valley Water Project
• Nacimiento Spillway Modification • Address lack of capacity to pass Probable
Maximum Flood
• Lower spillway crest
• Install Obermeyer spillway gate
• Raise downstream spillway chute sidewalls
Nacimiento Spillway Modification
Nacimiento Spillway Modification
Salinas Valley Water Project
• Salinas River Diversion Facility • Construction of Diversion Structure
• Fishway facilities (intake screen, bypass, fish ladder)
• River intake and pumping station
• Filtering and control facilities
Salinas River Diversion Facility
Salinas River Diversion Facility
Salinas River Diversion Facility
Salinas River Diversion Facility
SRDF
Monterey Regional WWTP
12,000 Acre CSIP Area
Salinas River Diversion Facility
Salinas River Diversion Facility
Prop. 50 Round 1 Implementation Summary
• Application process
– Long
– Arduous
– Expensive
• Grant Process
– Complicated
– Grantee/sub-grantee relationships tricky
Prop. 50 Round 1 Implementation Success
• Funded regionally important projects
– Soledad Water Recycling Plant
• Provides recycled water for landscape irrigation
– MCWD-EDS
• Moved municipal pumping inland
– SVWP
• Reduced coastal irrigation pumping
• Foundation for future critical plans
SVIRWMP Today
June 2006 SVIRWM
Functional Equivalent Plan
2009 Greater Monterey
IRWMP Region founded
April 2013 Greater
Monterey IRWMP Adopted
GMC IRWM Today • Greater Monterey
County Region
– Based on watershed
– Historical management of water resources
• WMG greatly expanded
• Prop 84 planning and implementation grants awarded
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